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SSI Supermodels Part 3… your Models
We've had numerous requests for more SSI Supermodels and the SSI "Bernal Sphere" Island is high on the list. Alas, the massive model we had made decades back (shown above) is...
Stephen Hawking should roundtable with Mike Combs
Last night after the family was asleep I started checking on the mailing list for the upcoming SSI Update, our special private Newsletter for SSI Associates. Robin Snelson had...
New SSI Classic Videos
Last week I sent former SSI Vice President and forever Emeritus Board Member Gregg Maryniak a heads up that we were ready to start putting his 1992 SSI presentation to the AIAA...
SSI Senior Associate Joe Strout presents The High Frontier Simulation "Game"
SSI Senior Associate Joe Strout has been working very hard on the High Frontier simulation project for quite some time and following the successful Kickstarter campaign the...
Quickie: Jeff Bezos on The High Frontier
SSI Senior Associate Dr. Justin Karl sends all Associates this heads up: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/jeff-bezos-space-colonies-oneill/ It was a race, SAs Bob and Sharon Brodbeck...
President Hudson on The Space Show tomorrow morning
[[UPDATE: If you missed the show... you didn't! To hear/download this Space Show episode with Gary, read the details and even make comments, you can click this link.]] Tomorrow,...
SSI at Exotic Propulsion Workshop
This week, SSI is very proud to be with Dr. James Woodward, Dr H Fearn, Dr José Rodal and, basically, the top minds in advanced "exotic" propulsion. This is a by-invitation...
SSI Supermodels (part 2): Make your own SSI Mass Driver
[looking for part 1 - the O'Neill Cylinder Model? click here!] In the early 1980s, Dr. Richard Woodbridge III, a Princeton graduate and retired Vice-President of the New York...
Energy. And Power.
Heinlein correctly said at the end of Have Spacesuit Will Travel that there is no "Luck": "Why were you on that frequency? Because you were wearing a space suit. Why were you...
SSI Supermodels (part 1)
With summer coming to an end and vacations over it's time to find things close to home to keep the kids (or grandkids) occupied. How about an O'Neill Colony that's easy to put...